17 great chefs and me

What do you get when you take 17 of the world’s best chefs and bring them together to cook for a week in one place? Well, if you were me and you got the chance to spend the week with them, eating their dishes and attending cooking classes taught by them, you’d get one damn happy blogger!

The Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok is hosting its 7th Annual World Gourmet Festival this coming 10-17 September. And yours truly has been appointed the Festival’s Official Blogger. That means S and I get to go to Bangkok and attend as many of the events as we can! Both of us will be posting daily during the Festival. I’m very excited. This year, the Festival is showcasing some really amazing chefs, including one of my personal food heroes, Peter Gordon. Regular readers might remember that S and I served a dish inspired by one of Gordon’s at our wedding dinner. While I’ve eaten at The Sugar Club and at Providores, I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting him. I’m really looking forward to attending both his dinner and his cooking clas.

Other great chefs taking part include Yoshii Ryuichi from Yoshii in Sydney; Michael Mina from Las Vegas; Fatema Hal, from Morocco by way of Paris; William Ledeuil from Ze Kitchen Galerie, also in Paris; and Ruth Van Waerebeek-Gonzalez, head chef at Concha y Toro, one of Chile’s most renowned vineyards. Also taking part is one of S’s friends, Vincent Bourdain (Vincent, not Anthony!), Valrhona Chocolate’s regional pastry consultant. But the chef that has S most excited is Emily Luchetti, pastry chef extraordinaire. S adores both of Luchetti’s books, A Passion for Desserts and A Passion for Ice Cream. She’s very thrilled to be able to attend Luchetti’s class; we’ve also asked for an interview, so hopefully, S will be able to spend some time chatting with her.

Each of the guest chefs will be cooking 2 dinners (in one of the hotel’s restaurants) and teaching at least one class. If you’re anywhere near Bangkok, you should consider attending the Festival. But, book soon. Some events are already sold-out. For more info, please email wgf.bangkok@fourseasons.com. Hopefully, I’ll see you there.

p.s. We’ve actually asked for interview-time with Peter Gordon, Michael Mina, Emily Luchetti and Fatema Hal. If any of you have questions that you want us to pose them, please leave them in a comment or email me. We’ll try to include the best questions in our interviews. Thanks.

Aun has always loved food and travel, passions passed down to him from his parents. This foundation, plus a background in media, pushed him to start Chubby Hubby in 2005. He loves that this site allows him to write about the things he adores--food, style, travel, his wife and his two kids!

11 Comments

That is TERRIFIC! Congradulations 🙂 You might want to practice taking small bites and then pushing the plate away before you go off to multi-feast. As a house photographer at the James Beard Foundation for 7 years, that was an essential skill. I’ve since lost it & now am back in the clean plate club 🙁ParisBreakfasts

I’ll probably see you around as I’ll almost certainly be there doing interviews and dinners for the International Herald Tribune. Let me know if you’d like to hook up for some real Thai food while in BKK!